Covered in this ticket: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55489
On 9-Dec-2013, at 17:00, Matt Benson wrote: > Do you have a link to that discussion? I'd be interested to catch up the > context here. > > Thanks, > Matt > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Andre-John Mas <andrejohn....@gmail.com>wrote: > >> It is what I used and how the patch was accepted, but since I was told it >> wasn't ideal I wanted to see if there were ways to deal with this going >> forward. >> >> André-John >> >> Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. >> >>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 15:56, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Looks like Main.getAntVersion() is your friend. >>> >>> Matt >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Andre-John Mas <andrejohn....@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This was the Get Task, whereby I was getting the ant version for use in >>>> the user-agent response. I am using the value uninterpreted. >>>> >>>> André-John >>>> >>>> Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. >>>> >>>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 14:23, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Are you looking for compatibility with the version? I.e., this task >> will >>>>> work on versions >= n? A commonly taken approach there is to use the >>>>> presence of some particular class introduced in the target version, >>>> rather >>>>> than fiddling with version numbers per se. >>>>> >>>>> HTH, >>>>> Matt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Andre-John Mas < >> andrejohn....@gmail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I recently made a code contribution and had the task get the version >>>> from >>>>>> the Main class. I appreciate this probably want the best approach and >> I >>>> am >>>>>> trying to consider options going forward. I had looked at the >>>> ant.version >>>>>> property, but the is only available in the project scope and also >>>> limited >>>>>> to the 'long' version. >>>>>> >>>>>> Some possibilities I am thinking of going forward: >>>>>> - Version class >>>>>> - AntRuntime class >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone else have suggestions or preferences as to the best way >>>> going >>>>>> forward? >>>>>> >>>>>> André-John >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >>>> >>>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
